Morton Parish Church, Manse Road, Thornhill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Morton Parish Church, Manse Road, Thornhill
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-sill-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Morton Parish Church, designed by architect William Burn, was built in 1841 and features a Gothic style with round-arched details. The church has a simple rectangular plan and a four-stage square tower at the west end, along with a low vestry added at the northeast corner by James Barbour in 1904. The exterior is constructed from stugged pinkish coursers with polished dressings. It has hood-moulded round-headed openings with moulded and splayed reveals.
The tower has lower stages that are offset, with stepped angle buttresses that continue as clasping pilaster strips, topped with pinnacles above a corbelled open parapet. The west-facing door features nook-shafts with scalloped capitals and a moulded arch. Each face of the top stage has louvered bipartite windows, and there is a clock on three faces of the stage below. The body of the church consists of five buttressed bays and corbelled parapets, with a pinnacled angle buttress. The east gable has five lights, and there is a two-bay vestry in a similar style, along with a porch alongside. The roofs are slate.
Inside, the church has a barrel-vaulted ceiling with ribs and bosses, and a horseshoe gallery with a panelled front supported by cast-iron columns. The leaded windows on the east gable include one by Ballantine and Gardner from around 1892, while others date from approximately 1883 to 1903. There is also a Romanesque font from 1887.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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